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No nonna? Learn pasta making from a Cucina chef

By Michele Parente
San Diego Union-Tribune
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There are two surefire ways to learn how to make pasta: from your Italian nonna or from an accomplished pasta chef.

If you’re lacking the grandma option, chef Daniel Wolinsky is leading pasta-making classes at Cucina Sorella in Kensington on Saturday and Sept. 29.

Among Wolinsky’s pasta credentials include his time as chef de cuisine at New York’s Frankies 570 Spuntino and an internship/master class with Italy’s pasta master.

For two months, Wolinsky studied under chef Massimo Bottura, the chef whose three Michelin-star restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, recently took the No. 1 spot on the 2018 list of “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants.”

Wolinsky, the chef de cuisine at Cucina Enoteca in Del Mar, said the two most important things he learned from Bottura were:

  1. How to roll pasta by hand — fatto a mano — which, “is much easier said than done.”
  2. And how to think creatively about food. “It’s an understanding of the rules, and then breaking of them.”

The classes at Cucina Sorella are a homecoming of sorts for Wolinsky, who had worked there from its opening in 2016 until he moved to Del Mar’s Enoteca.
He said the classes last about two and half to three hours and includes a family-style lunch, a glass of wine and the instruction.

“It’s fully hands on, you make your own pasta,” Wolinsky said. “It’s not a come-and-watch demonstration. It’s more of a do it yourself class. … And anyone can come, from beginner to advanced.”

Students will take home what they made, along with a recipe. And possibly a yearning to have an Italian nonna.

Pasta classes with chef Daniel Wolinsky

When: Saturday: Ricotta Dough. Sept. 29: Pasta with Flavor. Both classes begin at noon.

Where: Cucina Sorella, 4055 Adams Ave., Kensington

Tickets: $68, plus service fee and tax

Phone: (619) 281-4014

Online: urbankitchengroup.com/shop/product-category/events-classes

michele.parente@sduniontribune.com

Twitter: @sdeditgirl

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Michele Parente

Michele Parente is the Dining, Wine + Lifestyle reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her areas of expertise include the Valle de Guadalupe wine region, fashion, television, women’s issues and coverage of aging, such as the impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia and family caregiving. Michele is the former Sunday and features editor, where she oversaw profiles, special projects, such as the Legacy of WWII and in-depth reports on a variety of topics. She joined the U-T in 2003, supervising coverage areas that have included features, fashion, TV, Food, Consumer Health and Arts & Entertainment. Previously, Michele was the assistant features editor at The Oregonian, in Portland, as well as the Portland City Hall reporter. She spent 10 years at New York Newsday as a reporter on the crime, education, state legislature and New York City Hall beats. She was part of a team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting. A native New Yorker, Michele received her B.A. in political science and Italian Literature at UC Berkeley. In 1980, she studied at L’Università di Urbino, in Italy. One of her life’s goals is to make her way through each of the world’s great wine regions.

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